ICT and e-Business in the Pulp, Paper and Paper ... - empirica

Pulp, paper and paper products
business integration opportunities. The Corporate IT Group is responsible for all
enterprise wide applications, infrastructure services and messaging services.
Stora Enso uses papiNet® extensively in external and internal communications. In this
respect Mr Seppo Korhonen, VP of IT, observes that “it is very important to have
technical and business process standards. A good standards framework provides a halfway
house to business integration. papiNet® is an excellent e-business standards
framework. Adoption and use of papiNet® collaborative messages, combined with ERP,
is a major step in our overall supply chain integration strategy”.
Primacy of ERP
FENIX is the European Stora Enso ERP system. It was tailor-made by Enso prior to the
Enso and Stora merge, and prior to the “Y2000” changeover. Stora Enso then further
developed FENIX as their common cross-divisional ERP system in Europe and applied it
to their products/services and logistics. This later version of FENIX was created
specifically for Stora Enso by Tietoenator.
In 2000 Stora Enso acquired US Consolidated Papers, which operates throughout North
America with a principal focus on magazine and coated fine paper. They were already in
the middle of a JD Edwards (JDE) ERP solution implementation. Thus for ERP today,
Stora Enso uses FENIX in Europe and Oracle’s JDE in US. Both are XML capable. In
addition, Stora Enso uses SAP 74 in Europe for management and administrative tasks,
such as credit control, financial reporting, Human Resources, materials management,
machine maintenance and reporting. These SAP systems and FENIX are cross-linked to
enable internal information access. Stora Enso staff can thereby access detailed up-todate
information in accordance with their specific personal authorization levels.
Mr. Seppo Korhonen summarised the strategic importance and benefits of the FENIX
system for Stora Enso business units and partners. “FENIX is used by all Stora Enso
European Paper, Board and Pulp mills. It supports a range of different business
practises, using the same fundamentals and basic data, in many production and logistics
chains across Europe. This is a big bonus. FENIX also allows us to make further strategic
technology investments and harmonisation of business practises between and within
different businesses in our worldwide systems that would not otherwise be feasible”.
Impact
The central focus on ERP has several important effects. Three specific business
development enablers are presented in this study:
PartnerWeb
papiNet, and other standards
Intelligent packaging, and the PackAgent Pilot
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SAP is a company founded in 1972 as Systems Applications and Products in Data Processing,
which provides collaborative business solutions (www.sap.com).
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